“Here is a shot from the weekend…a leisurely evening on Wesley Lake…Black & Blue.
“Bob”
TOOTS THIELEMANS from his album One More For the Road.
The song “This Time the Dream’s on Me” was written for the 1941 film Blues in the Night by two of the all-time song-writing greats: Johnny Mercer (lyrics) and Harold Arlen (music). It is sung by Till Brönner.
“To see you through, till you’re everything you wanna be,
“It can’t be true, but this time the dream’s on me”
This is the Aurora in Ocean Grove in 2014. It is a former hotel, and later a single family (albeit a big one) home, and now on its way to becoming 4 condos. (This post is 2019.)
Many have photographed this scene, but no one produces a unique image like Bob Bowné. Bob, a professional fine art photographer and a Grover, is a regular contributor to Blogfinger. Re-post from July 4, 2014.
Greetings from Manhattan. I was struck by your quietly beautiful photo, “Beachfront Sunrise,” (posted recently on Blogfinger), and your statement that you preferred sunrises to sunsets because “beginnings are happier than endings.”
Here is the poem, “Dawn,” from my 2008 collection, Father of Water.
DICK HYMAN (piano) and Ken Peplowski (tenor sax) “Gone with the Wind.” Live at the Kitano, a fine New York restaurant with a jazz club. Currently closed due to COVID.
Spring Lake boardwalk . Bob Bowné took a right turn and wound up in Spring Lake. Nov. 21, 2015.
By Paul Goldfinger, Editor Blogfinger.net
Spring Lake is an exquisitely beautiful and classy town. There is no comparison to be made with Ocean Grove, but we can perhaps profit from seeing why they are so highly regarded.
For one thing, their governance is all about the residents. There is an active business district, but it is a residential community. The stores attract some tourism, but very little.
The shops are great. They even have April Cornell which was driven out of the Grove by a developer (Sackman) who had no interest in the nature of our town, and no one in the Grove fought for them. Spring Lake eagerly offered that beautiful shop a home.
S.L. does not have a single mega-event to force its people indoors to hide.
Parking is not a problem—ever. And they have found a simple measure to help their downtown: see the sign below—no meters.
3rd Avenue, downtown Spring Lake. Blogfinger.net photo. Nov. 7, 2020. 3 hour parking and then move….
They don’t lock their parks in Spring Lake. It is a welcoming place. In the center of downtown is a lovely park where kids, moms, dogs and others like to meet and greet. Look Ma—-no locks! Blogfinger.net photo 11/7/20.
This is OG’s Fireman’s Park. It is a disgusting disgrace! The barriers should be removed and the lock discarded. “Liberate Our Park!” Blogfinger photo. 11/7/20.
In S.L they love to have art around town. It celebrates beauty and lifts one’s spirits. They have a juried art show every spring. In recent years S.L. has exhibited Seward Johnson’s life-like citizens down town. Blogfinger.net. 11/7/20
Here’s a link to our coverage of the Seward Johnson exhibit there in 2016.
From Bob Bowné to Blogfinger: “I attached a photo I shot in Johnstown PA this weekend….ah…the industrial villages in the US are beat up.”
MAUDE MAGGART. Irving Berlin wrote this song “You Keep Coming Back Like a Song” from the 1946 movie Blue Skies, where it was introduced by Bing Crosby.
